Knowledge of Grammar, Knowledge of Usage: Syntactic Probabilities Affect Pronunciation Variation

By Susanne Gahl, Susan M. Garnsey. 2004

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Consequences of the Now-or-Never bottleneck for signed versus spoken languages (2015, background): “…reducing a vowel to a schwa, or shortening or eliminating phonemes) can be observed across different levels of linguistic representation, from individual words (e.g., Gahl & Garnsey 2004; Jurafsky et al. 2001) to frequent multiword sequences (e.g., Arnon & Cohen Priva 2013; Bybee & Schiebman 1999).”
More than words: Frequency effects for multi-word phrases (2010, background): “It is affected by word frequency (Jescheniak & Levelt, 1994), by the likelihood of a word given the previous one (Jurafsky, Bell, Gregory, & Raymond, 2001), as well as by the likelihood of the syntactic structure the word is part of (Gahl & Garnsey, 2004; Jaeger, 2006; Tily et al., 2009).”
Why reduce? Phonological neighborhood density and phonetic reduction in spontaneous speech (2012, unknown): “Phonolog ), doi:10.1016/j.jml.2011 Bell, Brenier, Gregory, Girand, & Jurafsky, 2009; Bybee, 2001; Fowler & Housum, 1987; Gahl, 2008, 2009; Gahl & Garnsey, 2004; Hunnicutt, 1985; Jurafsky, 2003; Quené, 2008; Tily et al., 2009).”
Experimental and theoretical advances in prosody: A review (2010, background): “Gahl and Garnsey (2004) found that verbs were lengthened and preceded a longer pause when they occurred with the dispreferred continuation.”
Redundancy and reduction: Speakers manage syntactic information density (2010, background): “That is, speakers’ preferences during online production are affected by probability distributions (see also Chang et al., 2006; Gahl & Garnsey, 2004; Jaeger, 2006a; Jaeger & Snider, 2008; Resnik, 1996; Stallings et al., 1998).”
Cognitive Corpus Linguistics: five points of debate on current theory and methodology (2010, background): “This does not only hold for collocations of specified elements, but generalises to co-occurrence pattems of lexical umts with grammatical constructions (Gahl and Gamsey, 2004).”
Reference production: Production-internal and addressee-oriented processes (2008, background): “…1929) or when it is predictable from the immediately preceding context (Jurafsky, Bell, Gregory, & Raymond, 2000; Lieberman, 1963), for example when it has been previously mentioned (Bard & Aylett, 1999; Fowler & Housum, 1987), or when its syntactic position is predictable (Gahl & Garnsey, 2004).”
of construction probability on word durations during spontaneous incremental sentence production (2012, methodology): “One study of phonetic effects of high-level construction probabilities is Gahl and Garnsey (2004, 2006).”
Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives (2015, background): “Gahl & Garnsey (2004) also find that verbs taking either a direct object (e.g., I heard the story yesterday) or a sentence complement (e.g., I heard the story was true) are pronounced faster and with more final /t,d/ deletions when the post-verbal constituent matches the probabilistic syntactic…”
Bilingual experience shapes language processing: Evidence from codeswitching (2017, background): “For verbs with alternative complementation patterns (e.g., ‘believe’ vs. ‘confirm’), it has been found that preferences for associating verbs with a particular argument structure can influence speech production (Gahl & Garnsey, 2004) and speech comprehension (Wilson & Garnsey, 2009).”
Syntactic probabilities affect pronunciation variation in spontaneous speech (2009, background): “We confirmed the date (DO) In Gahl and Garnsey (2004), we examined pronunciation variation in these types of sentence, and showed that, among other things, the acoustic-phonetic realization of the clause boundary following ‘‘confirmed’’ in the SC-variant was in part a function of the probability of…”
Predictability Effects on Durations of Content and Function Words in Conversational English (2009, background): “The early and influential Garrett (1975), Garrett (1980) model proposed that content and function words have different modes of access.”